[p2p-research] Slashdot | 1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right In Finland

[Michel Bauwens]

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On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Paul D. Fernhout <
pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com> wrote:

>
> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/10/14/2229231/1Mb-Broadband-Access-Becomes-Legal-Right-In-Finland
> "Starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a
> one-megabit broadband connection, according to the Ministry of Transport and
> Communications. Finland is the world's first country to create laws
> guaranteeing broadband access. The Finnish people are also legally
> guaranteed a 100Mb broadband connection by the end of 2015."
>
> Embedded article:
>  "Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right"
>  http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10374831-2.html
> """
> According to the report, every person in Finland (a little over 5 million
> people, according to a 2009 estimate) will have the right of access to a 1Mb
> broadband connection starting in July.
>  And they may ultimately gain the right to a 100Mb broadband connection.
> Just more than a year ago, Finland said it would make a 100Mb broadband
> connection a legal right by the end of 2015. Wednesday's announcement is
> considered an intermediate step.
>  France, one of a few countries that has made Internet access a human
> right, did so earlier this year. France's Constitutional Council ruled that
> Internet access is a basic human right. That said, it stopped short of
> making "broadband access" a legal right. Finland says that it's the first
> country to make broadband access a legal right.
> """
>
> Is this somehow indirectly a right to p2p? :-)
>
> Or is this a way to ensure everyone gets to visit mainstream web sites?
>
> Or does it just go beyond all that or besides all that?
>
> --Paul Fernhout
> http://www.pdfernhout.net/
>
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